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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3
George Elliott Howard
America wrote dozens of different answers to one question: when may a marriage end? The closing volume of Howard's study tracks a century and a quarter of divorce legislation across New England, the South and the frontier states, from 1776 to 1903. Statutes, statistics and migratory divorce, gathered before anyone else thought to. The record behind every modern debate.
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23 chapters
- 1A HISTORY OF Matrimonial Institutions CHIEFLY IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE AND THE THEORIES OF PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
- 2ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3PART III MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
- 4CHAPTER XVII A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
- 5I. THE NEW ENGLAND STATES
- 6II. THE SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN STATES[124]
- 7III. THE MIDDLE AND WESTERN STATES[346]
- 8CHAPTER XVIII PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
- 9I. THE FUNCTION OF LEGISLATION
- 10II. THE FUNCTION OF EDUCATION
- 11BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
- 12I. EARLY HISTORY OF MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS
- 13II. MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN ENGLAND AND UNDER GERMANIC AND CANON LAW
- 14III. MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
- 15A. MANUSCRIPTS
- 16B. BOOKS AND ARTICLES
- 17IV. PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
- 18V. SESSION LAWS AND COLLECTED STATUTES USED IN CHAPTERS XVI-XVIII.
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